Tape Backup

At 07:37 PM 05/30/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>
>For an IDE tape drive it's probably /dev/ftape, I think. IDE sucks for
>backups :).

Care to educate me as to why it sucks?
TIA
Bob Holtzman
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